BOLIVIA: Interim

In the vanguard, on trucks and makeshift
ambulances, came the wounded who fell in overthrowing the Bolivian
tyranny (TIME, July 29). Then followed rifle-toting men & women,
exultant students, ordinary citizens. Fifty thousand strong, they
paraded last week through La Paz's treeless Plaza Murillo to celebrate
the first month of the revolution.

So spontaneous had been last month's uprising, that not until hours
after President Gualberto Villarroel's body swung from its lamppost had
revolutionists gathered to form a representative junta. To the junta
and to outsiders from Buenos Aires to Washington, the victory parade
was one bit of evidence among many...